Shore has also composed a few concert works including one opera, The Fly, based on the plot of Cronenberg's 1986 film premiered at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris on July 2, 2008, a short piece Fanfare for the Wanamaker Organ and the Philadelphia Orchestra, and a short overture for the Swiss 21st Century Symphony Orchestra. In addition to his three Academy Awards, Shore has also won three Golden Globe Awards and four Grammy Awards.
Howard Shore was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the son of Bernice (née Ash) and Mac Shore. Shore is Jewish. He started studying music at the age of 8 or 9. He learned a multitude of instruments and began playing in bands at the ages of 13 and 14. When Shore was 13, he met and became good friends with a young Lorne Michaels in summer camp, and this friendship would later be influential in his career. By 17, he decided he wanted to pursue music in his adult life too. He studied music at Berklee College of Music in Boston after graduating from Forest Hill Collegiate Institute.
From 1969 to 1972, Shore was a member of the jazz fusion band Lighthouse. In 1970, he became the music director for Lorne Michaels and Hart Pomerantz's short-lived TV program The Hart & Lorne Terrific Hour. Shore wrote the music for Canadian magician Doug Henning's magic musical Spellbound in 1974 and, from 1975 to 1980, he was the musical director for Lorne Michaels' influential late-night NBC comedy show Saturday Night Live, appearing in many musical sketches, including Howard Shore and His All-Nurse Band, and dressed as a beekeeper for a John Belushi/Dan Aykroyd performance of the Slim Harpo classic "I'm a King Bee". Shore also suggested the name for The Blues Brothers to Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi.
Since 2004, he has toured the world conducting local orchestras in the performance of his new symphonic arrangement of his highly acclaimed Lord of the Rings scores. The new work is entitled The Lord of the Rings: Symphony in Six Movements. There are two movements for each of the movies, and an intermission between the second and third (or first and second film titles) movements. The concert presentation of the symphony also includes projected still images of sketches by John Howe and Alan Lee relating the music being performed to scenes from the films. Recently, however, Shore has been busy with other projects, leaving other conductors including Markus Huber, Ludwig Wicki, Alexander Mickelthwaite, and John Mauceri to lead the orchestras.
April 24, 2008 marked the North American Live to Projection debut of Fellowship of the Ring, with the score performed live by the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Ludwig Wicki. Wicki also conducted the Filene Center Orchestra at the Wolf Trap Farm Park in Vienna, Virginia on May 21 and 22, 2008 in the U.S. premiere of the Fellowship of the Ring Live to Projection.
September 16, 2010 Shore conducted the RSO Vienna (Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra) which performed "In Dreams from The Fellowship of the Ring" at Hollywood in Vienna in Vienna, Austria. Shore was commissioned by Macy's to write a Fanfare for the Store's 150th anniversary featuring the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Wanamaker Organ, the world's largest playing pipe organ. The work was debuted in the Grand Court of Macy's Philadelphia Store on September 27, 2008 in a concert that drew reviews from most of the major East Coast newspapers.
Shore's opera The Fly had its world premiere performance at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris on July 2, 2008 and its United States premiere at Los Angeles Opera on September 7, 2008. The production was directed by David Cronenberg and conducted by Plácido Domingo. The Fly had a new production mounted by Theatre Trier in Germany in 2014 staged by Sebastian Welker and conducted by Joongbae Jee.
Shore was commissioned by the Beijing Music Festival to write Ruin and Memory, a piano concerto, for renowned pianist Lang Lang. The world premiere was on October 11, 2010 performed by Lang Lang, The China Philharmonic Orchestra and conducted by Long Yu. His second concerto, Mythic Gardens, premiered April 27, 2012 with Sophie Shao on cello solo, The American Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Leon Botstein.
Shore's song cycle A Palace Upon the Ruins premiered in 2014 at the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival and at the La Jolla SummerFest featuring mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano. A Palace Upon the Ruins is a song cycle of six songs with words by Elizabeth Cotnoir.
Sea to Sea was commissioned by New Brunswick Youth Orchestra in celebration of Canada’s 150th anniversary of confederation and premiered on July 2, 2017 in Moncton, New Brunswick with soloist Measha Brueggergosman and Antonio Delgado conducting. Sea to Sea has lyrics by Elizabeth Cotnoir.
The song cycle L’Aube premiered October 19 & 20, 2017 in Toronto at Roy Thompson Hall conducted by Peter Oundjian and performed by soloist Susan Platts and commissioning orchestra, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. L’Aube consists of five songs with text by Elizabeth Cotnoir.
The Forest a guitar concerto composed for Miloš Karadaglić will premiere in Ottawa on May 1 & 2, 2019 with the National Arts Centre Orchestra and Alexander Shelley conducting.
In addition to writing the original theme song for Saturday Night Live, as well as the closing theme, Shore also co-wrote the theme song for Late Night with Conan O'Brien with John Lurie. The theme was carried over to The Tonight Show when O'Brien succeeded Jay Leno as host.
Shore narrated a one-hour CBC Radio documentary/soundscape on music in thriller/suspense film genres also including references to radio dramas and other media. The episode was called "Unsettling Scores" and premiered on the program called Inside the Music.
Shore is married to Elizabeth Cotnoir, a writer, producer and documentary filmmaker. He has a daughter, Mae.[35] He is the uncle of film composer Ryan Shore.
As of 2004, Shore lives in Tuxedo Park, New York.
Still
Howard Shore Lyrics
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I am your brilliance and frustration
I'm the nuclear bombs if they´re to hit
I am your immaturity and your indignance
I am your misfits and your praises
I am your doubt and your conviction
I am your charity and your rape
I see you averting your glances
I see you cheering on the war
I see you ignoring your children
And I love you still
And I love you still
I am your joy and your regret
I am your fury and your elation
I am your yearning and your sweat
I am your faithless and your religion
I see you altering history
I see you abusing the land
I see you and your selective amnesia
And I love you still
And I love you still
I am your tragedy and your fortune
I am your crisis and delight
I am your profits and your prophets
I am your art I am your bytes
I am your death and your decisions
I am your passion and your plights
I am your sickness and convalescence
I am your weapons and your light
I see you holding your grudges
I see you gunning them down
I see you silencing your sisters
And I love you still
And I love you still
I see you lie to your country
I see you forcing them out
I see you blaming each other
And I love you still
And I love you still
The lyrics to Howard Shore's "Still" are a complex and emotional exploration of human nature and the many contradictions and dualities that exist within us all. The singer of the song presents themselves as a kind of omnipresent force, embodying both the worst and best aspects of humanity: "I am the harm that you inflict...I am your charity and your rape...I am your joy and your regret...I am your profits and your prophets."
Throughout the song, the singer observes humanity engaging in both destructive and loving behaviors, from cheering on wars to ignoring their own children, from abusing the land to performing charitable acts. The singer sees humanity for all its flaws and contradictions, including selective memory, grudges, blame, and silencing of marginalized voices.
Despite all of this, though, the singer declares that they still love humanity: "And I love you still...And I love you still." This love is almost confounding and mysterious - even when confronted with the worst parts of humanity, the singer's love remains unwavering. Perhaps the singer represents something larger than humanity itself, something that sees beyond our individual actions and embraces us unconditionally.
Overall, "Still" is a powerful and thought-provoking meditation on the complexities of being human, and the capacity for love and compassion that exists within even the darkest corners of our hearts.
Line by Line Meaning
I am the harm that you inflict
I am the negative consequences of your actions
I am your brilliance and frustration
I am your creativity and your disappointments
I'm the nuclear bombs if they´re to hit
I am the destruction and fear caused by war
I am your immaturity and your indignance
I am your lack of experience and your rebellion against authority
I am your misfits and your praises
I am your outcasts and your moments of celebration
I am your doubt and your conviction
I am your uncertainties and your firm beliefs
I am your charity and your rape
I am your acts of kindness and your acts of violence
I am your grasping and expectation
I am your desires and your anticipation
I see you averting your glances
I see you avoiding eye contact
I see you cheering on the war
I see you encouraging and supporting war
I see you ignoring your children
I see you neglecting your responsibilities as a parent
And I love you still
Despite all of the negative things I am associated with, I still love you
I am your joy and your regret
I am your moments of happiness and your feelings of sorrow
I am your fury and your elation
I am your anger and your excitement
I am your yearning and your sweat
I am your desires and your hard work to achieve them
I am your faithless and your religion
I am your lack of belief and your spiritual practices
I see you altering history
I see you changing the course of events in the past
I see you abusing the land
I see you mistreating and damaging the environment
I see you and your selective amnesia
I see you forgetting certain things while remembering others
I am your tragedy and your fortune
I am your moments of sorrow and your strokes of luck
I am your crisis and delight
I am your difficult situations and your pleasures
I am your profits and your prophets
I am your financial gains and your spiritual leaders
I am your art I am your bytes
I am your creative works and your technological innovations
I am your death and your decisions
I am your mortality and your choices
I am your passion and your plights
I am your enthusiasm and your struggles
I am your sickness and convalescence
I am your illnesses and your recovery
I am your weapons and your light
I am your tools of violence and your sources of illumination
I see you holding your grudges
I see you harboring resentments
I see you gunning them down
I see you killing in cold blood
I see you silencing your sisters
I see you preventing women from having a voice
I see you lie to your country
I see you deceiving your nation
I see you forcing them out
I see you expelling people from their homes or countries
I see you blaming each other
I see you accusing others for faults or mistakes
And I love you still
Despite all of the negative things I am associated with, I still love you
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: ALANIS MORISSETTE, JOEL SHEARER
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Toni Rajalammi
John Williams, Hans Zimmer and Howard Shore. The three greatest movie composers of all time.
aarondavid826
John Barry and Patrick Doyle are up there too
KmiiVC
i would honestly have it like this:
3: The Return of the King
2: The Two Towers
1: The Fellowship of the Ring.
yeah, each installment in their place, i realize. lmao.
it's just... the track "The Breaking of the Fellowship", the one that plays at the end of the first film, might just be one of my favorite pieces of music ever. that one does it for me.
Savilan
1st one sounds similar in a way to Hollow Knight Resting grounds theme.
Rafael C. C.
Top 3 is obvious, but The Hobbit, mainly the second one, would definitely be in my top.
BUBI WAAN
Wait...where is the hobbit?
Бгали Ктов
at last. I've been waiting for you for so long.